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You can't and even if you could, why would you want to? All you want to do is add 1 to a counter variable

Yep exactly, what's on line 26 of program05.java?

this:


int yesVotes = Integer.parseInt (reply);

What's the error telling you?
this:

The exception message should tell you exactly what the problem is. Please post it in its entirety.

Hint: think about exactly what you're trying to parse into an int.

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